Other Notable Americans 02

Clarence Darrow

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Steven Decatur

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!

Frederick Douglass

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Thomas Campbell

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

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